[Common:]Here we go, here, here we go againTrayvon'll never get to be an older manBlack children, they childhood stole from themRobbed of our names and our language, stole againWho stole the soul from black folk?Same man that stole the lamb from cheap black smokeAnd made the whip crackle on our back slowAnd made us go through the back doorAnd rap for black bodies on the slave blocksNow we slave to the blocks, on 'em we spray shotsLeaving our own to lay in a boxBlack mother's stomachs stay in a knotWe kill each other, it's part of the plotI wish the hating will stop (war)And the battle with usI know that black lives matter and they matter to usThese are the things we gotta discussThe new plantation, mass incarcerationInstead of educate, they'd rather convict the kidsAs dirty as the water in Flint, the system isIs it a felony or a misdemeanorMaria Sharapova making more than SerenaIt took Viola Davis to say thisThe rose of the help and the gangsters is really all they gave usWe need Avas, Ta-Nehisis, and Cory BookersThe salt of the Earth to get us off of sugar and greasy foodsI don't believe the news or radio, stereotypes we refuseBrainwashed in the cycle to spinWe write our own story, black America again

[Sample - James Brown:]You know, you know, you know. One way of solving a lot of problems we got is to let a person feel like somebody and a man can't get himself together until he knows who he is and be proud of what and who he is, and where he come from, and where he come from

[Common:]Hot damn, black America againThink of Sandra Bland as I'm staring in the windThe color of my skin, they comparing it to sinThe darker it gets, the less fairer it has beenThe hate the hate made, I inherited it from themBut I ain't gon' point the finger, we got annointed singersLike Nina, Marvin, Billy, StevieNeed to hear them songs sometimes to believe meWho freed me? Lincoln or CadillacDrinking or battle raps so is it Godspeed that we travel at?In danger denied on habitatThe guns and dope man y'all can have it backAs a matter of fact, we them lab ratsYou build the projects for us now you want your hood backI guess if you could rap you would express it toThat PTSD, we need professionalsYou know what pressure do, it make the pipes bustFrom schools to prison y'all, they tryna pipe usTell your political parties invite usInstead of making broke laws to spite usYou know, you know we from a family of fight trustFought in your wars and our warsYou put a nigga in Star Wars, maybe you need twoAnd then, maybe then we'll believe youSee black people in the futureWe wasn't shipped here to rob and shoot yaWe hold this truth to be self evidentAll men and women are created equal, including black Americans

[Sample - James Brown:]You know, you know, you know. One way of solving a lot of problems we got is to let a person feel like somebody and a man can't get himself together until he knows who he is and be proud of what and who he is, and where he come from, and where he come from

[Stevie Wonder:]We are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American storyWe are rewriting the black American story